totk-tas-docs

TAS Stats+Strats for Tears of the Kingdom

• View at https://aquacluck.github.io/totk-tas-docs/ for video embeds, https://github.com/aquacluck/totk-tas-docs for source
• This project catalogs assorted data, timings, scripts, and proofs of whatever we care about, with a Hyrule Engineering inspired focus on rigor+reproducibility.
• Content here that I’ve authored is free under the conditions of CC BY-SA

Player movement

• Basic forward motion
• ZL + Aiming movement+jumps
• Turn speed influences walk+run speeds differently
• 3s cooldown on shield jump speeds
• Gyro angular velocity
• Basic airborne drag
• AF vertical speed
• AF shield surf drag
• shield jump speed preservation from ledge
• mozdor jump rhythm
• sprint
• jumpslash cancel

Weapon+Material movement

• material throw speed (level/upward)
• throw speed independent from Player

Suggested submission requirements:

• Feel free to submit info in the discord thread or as issues/PRs here
• Attach a TAS script or lotuskit AS file reproducing (at least) the important parts of your submission
• Attach an embeddable mp4 clip of your submission. Please try HandBrake’s 1080p30 options, it can fit several minutes in under 50MB with good-enough quality. I also recommend OBS to record and LosslessCut to trim your files first.
• Game version must be obvious: Either from lotuskit’s display, or emu title bar, or home menu version dialog, or mentioned in your message.
• Explain any prereqs or prep for your submission, either in your message or in script comments
• Source data must be onscreen in either realtime or with a frame latency you can prove:
  • Run lotuskit (which draws sometime every frame – drawn data could straddle 2 frames if draw happens “mid-frame”, but for text this would visibly flicker the layout if the draw “subframe” wanders, as it would force/drop varying text into prev/next frames)
  • Or find another way to meet this standard (eg correlate a dump or tool output with certain frames in the video, or within some margin)
  • If you must infer/guess/round any unverifiable precision or other info: Explicitly call this out. Explain why it can’t be helped. Explain your suspected margin of error/etc.
• Results must be reproducible, don’t submit freak occurrences – but feel free to post or chat about them! Maybe not perfectly or every time (please explain what you can) but reproducible enough.
• Sometimes tas::inputs are appropriate to show menuing/etc, sometimes you should use cheats to get to the point + iterate quickly, sometimes both
• Useful/interesting scripts welcome, not everything needs to be a proof!
• Glitch reference implementations welcome!

An EX-King-Sized Thanks to:

• SciresM and shadow for Atmosphere and exlaunch respectively, I couldn’t read data from the game without them
• dt13269 and Watertoon for their work reverse engineering TOTK, I’d have a hard time with the game’s code without them
• TOTK Speedrunning discord for their massive knowledge of glitches+strats, and Aergyl especially as a major TAS contributor and overall TOTK wizard
• Zelda Data Collection & Research discord for their extensive documentation of general game data
• The Hyrule Engineering discord for partial inspiration
• Nintendo for making games so good that people spend their time doing this with them

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